Getting Started with Scratch

SCRATCH

By Kevvin Hankins

Multiple Choice

What school created Scratch?

• Harvard

• Crayon College

• MIT

• Yale

Sprite

An object in Scratch that performs functions through scripting.

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Which item on the screen is the sprite?

• Volcano

• Sand

• Cat

• Colourful grass

Fill in the Blank

What is the name of the program?

Multiple Choice

What is Scratch?

• A visual programming language

• A cat

• A fancy block of cheese

• A good friend

Multiple Choice

Where do you go to get/add a sprite?

• Option #1

• Option #2

• Option #3

• Option #4

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An object in Scratch that performs functions through scripting

• costume

• stage

• sprite

Stage

The background of a project in Scratch which can have scripts, backdrops, sound, etc is called the Stage.

Multiple Select

When you open your Scratch application, the default sprite you can see is an orange dog.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Displays the location of your X and Y positions.

• stage

• coordinates

• volume

costume

the appearance of a sprite

Multiple Choice

To change the appearance of a sprite we can give it a different...

• Costume

• Look

• Style

• Stage

Multiple Choice

Which block is used for starting an algorithm?

Motion blocks

Medium-blue colored blocks used to control a sprite's movement in Scratch

Multiple Choice

medium-blue colored blocks used to control a sprite's movement in Scratch

• sensing blocks

• operator blocks

• looks blocks

• reporter blocks

• motion blocks

Multiple Choice

What will happen to the sprite when we click on it?

• Move left by 10

• Move left by -10

• Move up by 10

• Move right by 10

Multiple Choice

Just like boxes, which of the following can hold or store information or data in programs.

• video

• value

• variables

Multiple Choice

Information or data that can be stored as text or numbers are known as ?

• values

• variables

• Volatile

Multiple Choice

Whole numbers or decimals can only be stored as what type of variable in scratch?

• string

• number

• boolean

Multiple Choice

String variables holds information or data containing symbols, letters, phrases and numbers.

• False

• True

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A boolean variable holds values that can only be True.

• True

• False

Reporter blocks

a block in Scratch with round edges that contains a value (numbers, sentences, etc.) and can be used inside other blocks

Multiple Choice

A block in Scratch with round edges that contains a value (numbers, sentences, etc.) and can be used inside other blocks.

• sensing blocks

• operator blocks

• looks blocks

• reporter blocks

• motion blocks

Looks blocks

Purple-colored blocks of code in Scratch that are used to control a sprite's appearance

Multiple Choice

Purple-colored blocks of code in Scratch that are used to control a sprite's appearanc

• sensing blocks

• operator blocks

• looks blocks

• reporter blocks

• motion blocks

Operator block

light-green colored blocks of code used to handle strings and math equations in Scratch

Multiple Choice

Light-green colored blocks of code used to handle strings and math equations in Scratch

• sensing blocks

• operator blocks

• looks blocks

• reporter blocks

• motion blocks